it was it was it was an. international approval grows for russia's covert vaccine iran's the latest nation to greenlight sputnik movie ideas days it's nearly ready to with the country's moscow envoy saying he's hot the job himself. expressed in the next couple of weeks i should think you have seen are very deliberately approved and will be available with use in their. 3rd night of violence in the netherlands as riots return against new code curfews following the weekend of on rest over the country's tough lockdown. times there's

vaccine vexation between britain and brussels with the u.k. calling out the e.u. has a plan to tightly control medicine export. a warm welcome it's 8 pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me they care and. now iran has become the latest country to approve that russia's the sputnik the covert vaccine and hopes to play a part in manufacturing the medicine to. bush i would like to inform you that yesterday of this boutique the vaccine was registered in iran and approved by our health officials we hope that in the near future we will be able to buy the japanese into a large joint manufacture. or separately the mexican president has described the job as evidence of scientific progress i think that his country hopes to get millions of doses within weeks we spoke with the president of the russian

federation vladimir putin and he was genuinely affectionate i invited him to visit mexico and thank him for the decision to send us 24000000 doses of the sputnik vaccine over the next 2 months. meanwhile in india the final stage of sputnik the clinical trials are well underway how the country's ambassador to moscow is that he's already taken the job himself i took it last week. the 1st also sputnik rex in i feel perfectly ready many of my colleagues in the embassy have done so as well and. absolutely certain that this is part of the normal. precautions that we dig deeper into big situation just as we were near the mosque we have sort of distance but it is also good to pick scientifically proven back scenes and of course the sport big vaccine is one such works in the

approval of sputnik v in india could come within weeks and once it completes the trials it is also considering making the job on his territory for both domestic and global demand the country's envoy to russia told as why it new delhi got involved. it doesn't come as a surprise that we have a such a long tradition of cooperation between india and russia their cooperation continued during the cold pandemic so when the idea of cheap has to cater to the material approach the indian authorities or the testing of the sputnik alexy in this was really come to an india the space to try to pick rex you have been completed face a new trial of a commenced and be assured that us when i still reckon your tree approves given in india it will be available for use in india. aim is to finally

cover the vaccination of 300000000 indians so it is one of the largest vaccination programs in the bit but at the same time we wish to reach out to india friends and neighbors and we have done so be have given the nation doses. supplies have been sent by air to an apollo booked on bangladesh myanmar shows maldives and this is just the beginning we do not believe in vaccine competition we do not believe in vaccine nationalism we believe in vaccine cooperation and friendship and we intend to extend our hand of friendship rules. for their explanation programs for number of countries. who are in need of. the land that the ritual has been forward and i'm sure in the weeks ahead they would be cooperation between india and russia on the global vaccination programs

and there would be great potential for cooperation because the number of the vaccines that are produced in india would also be used abroad and there clearly include that action sputnik rexy in that for to be produced in india. has been in touch with the. one of really good indian companies could pick this forward and be expected in the next couple of weeks sport big rocks enough proof the regulatory approval will be available for use in india and also for to explore russia and other countries. the netherlands enjoyed a 3rd night of anti lockdown riots on monday is saw fires lifts police vehicles burned and windows smashed in protest at some of europe's toughest covert restrictions which include an overnight curfew. i. think.

more than 180 people were arrested in the latest on rest in the downtown rotterdam where shops were vandalized and looted local officials and the prime minister have condemned the violence that's criminal with some fearing the unrest puts the country on the path to civil war. but meantime a spot over vaccine supply is rumbling between the u.k. and the e.u. worsens vaccines minister has his house in brussels the decision to control exports calling it a vaccine nationalism and wrong it stems from european politicians accusing the british swedish drug company astra zeneca of diverting the promised events in supplies to other countries here's our europe correspondent peter all over. governments across europe are struggling to bring down the number of cases of

covert 19 and the number of fatalities from the virus that's the spite putting in place lock downs and restrictions on people like those that we've seen in the netherlands that have resulted in on breasts there the latest issues that we're seeing a regarding the logistics of getting the vaccine where it needs to go there simply isn't enough being produced at the moment to put into people's arms and a spot is a rope thing between the u.k. and the e u which is ended up with the u.k. vaccines minister accusing the european union of well vaccine diplomacy vaccine politics whatever you want to call it he's got a name for it vaccine nationalism is the wrong way to go we've got to make sure we protect our own people and then actually you know put our you know leaning as far as we can to protect the rest of the world to deal with the shortfalls in the number of vaccine doses available the european union has said that it wants

pharmaceutical companies to inform brussels whenever vaccines manufactured inside the european union are to be exported outside of the block well that really could end up resulting in delays to vaccines arriving in the united kingdom that's the concern in london despite 10 downing street playing down the idea of a vaccine war it's clear from what we just heard from the vaccine minister it is causing some concern now there's also concern over vaccines coming the other way earlier on we heard from astra zeneca the past oxford based part a year based pharmaceutical company saying that they were going to cook the number of vaccines expected to be delivered to the european union in the 1st quarter of 2021 by a whopping 60 percent that did not go down well in fact it resulted in. when. the european commission president coming out and saying that the world they needed

to get the vaccines that they paid for she also made accusations that perhaps some of these vaccines may be going to the highest bidder as opposed to those that it signed contracts like the you to get them in the 1st place l'arche some swear invested to build research cappers cities and production facilities early europe invested billions to help develop the world's 1st covered 1000 vaccines and now the companies must deliver they must honor their obligations and this is why we will set up a vaccine export transparency mechanism make no bones about it the european commission and ursula found alone personally are under extreme scrutiny across the european union for the way that the vaccine program has been dealt with what we have is a situation whereby the vaccination program in the e.u.

is being late silly slow if you compare it to countries like the united states and the united kingdom which is done particularly well it isn't looking too great the way that vaccines are being rolled out across the block and there are a lot of people asking a lot of questions why that is the case it's unsure of course where the arguing between the e.u. and the u.k. is the way to solve that particular impasse. despite an overall shortage of vaccines many doses of their finds a job in spain have been wasted that's because the country lacks the special thorough ranges needed to extract doses and from their vile and medical experts broke down the problem in a bit more detail. they have already talked about the 6 and even 7 toes it's not possible with all the royals. you have to be prepared for that use more expensive series just unusual it's a lot of money records more caution. so while the 165000

doses of the fine is a shot have been given so far in the catalan region an estimated 10000 doses have been wasted and the shortages could have been worse had it not been for the fact that some regions do have the right needles the country is going through some of its toughest times in a 3rd wave of the pandemic deadly infection rates hit a new high last week salvador payroll again sais the shortage of vaccines that has amplified the problem. the main problem is that the number of vaccine supplied under the agreements and procurement of the european commission is still very small i believe that until new vaccines are allowed their numbers will be significantly lower than we and the rest of the european union needs now the european melt since agency is changing the technical detail induces per hour as soon as the labels changed they're going to give us 20 percent less those of us

than we should have because any mistake means a loss of dough i think what this really means is a 20 percent increase in prices. the e.u. and the u.s. have been eagerly backing protests in support of jelled kremlin critic alexina valmy and russia however at the same time they have been criticizing the far bigger rallies taking place in their own backyard so is it a case of one under another say you have reports. the united states has come out in the strongest terms against the suppression of protests and against put he spoke let me try again the united states says it can deadens police brutality it other countries the united states strongly condemns the use of harsh tactics against protesters and journalists this weekend in cities throughout russia prior to today's events the russian government sought to suppress the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression i've got ahead and put together a least

a list of people in that disease that have the right to lecture others on police brutality so there's luas for example they knew this stuff right what's legal and what isn't there is the pope i'm not catholic but i haven't seen vatican security roughing anyone up recently than that as yada yada oh oh there's no america in this least the very good reason there won't be defining there won't be a dismantling of our police and they're not going to be the dispensing of our police our police have been letting us live in peace we can't give up the finest law enforcement anywhere in the world is nothing like it. few people few countries have a record and trouble is right few countries have a police force that unhinged i didn't see anyone getting shot in moscow nor tear gas nor sprayed with water cannons but that was trump let's see what biden thinks

about opposition protests what we witnessed yesterday was not dissent it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos. there were protesters don't dare call them protesters there were a riotous mob insurrection. the nesting terrors. stat basic it's. that said look nobody is ever again buying your lectures about police brutality the world has seen by in the mosque not that it stops some from drive. to find this authoritarian drift is very worrying so there is france right in the 1st 3 months of the year of this protests french police arrested 10000 protesters people died people will crippled last our eyes lost lives here gas and

rubber bullets were used in france in industrial quantities and you know what macro and is proud of the police do not speak of repression or police violence these words are unacceptable where there is rule of law then is germany demanding the release of all peaceful protesters detained in russia detained for peacefully attacking police peacefully punching traffic cops and peacefully destroying cars maiming drivers and marshaling kids 1011 year olds to attend violent protests germany itself has been rattled with anti lockdown protests and you know what the german officials and police did they dismiss them as loons crazies extremists and beat them around the head for good measure the democratic constitution states is alive in the police or is protective shield a thing called the emergency services for this important service to a country that was a target not long ago when the world looked up to europe and america is as beacons

of freedom and liberty the right way to do things but that beacon that light has gone out there are no illusions anymore about europe or america being superior or better than everyone else the time for hypocritical lectures has pos no one can be bothered to listen anymore. well across this forest is correspondent can have more pain in it new york take a lead and get to see how this sounds rather sinister what's being fed. well at this point there are 5000 national guard who will remain in washington d.c. until mid march this is about security concerns take a listen are several upcoming events we don't know what they are over the

next several weeks we were briefed on a very regular basis about those and we are posturing our forces to be able to respond to those threats if if they emerge. now those national guard were deployed after the capitol riots on january 6th and there are concerns that the former president donald trump could increasingly foment unrest especially as the upcoming impeachment trial of trump even though he's already left office is set to take place the public is doubtful about whether or not donald trump would actually do such a thing however joe biden's call for post-election unity of the country and trying to bring the country together many are saying that that falls that call seems a little bit disingenuous if congress is then going to go ahead and carry out impeachment proceedings against the previous president to make sure he can never run again let's take a listen to fact he hasn't done that is pretty damning indictment of his hypocrisy

in calling for unity yet pursuing policies that are extremely divisive now despite the new political goals of the administration many are simply not happy to see the capital of the united states turned into an armed camp with thousands of soldiers i'm not aware of threat reporting that suggests we need 7000 troops and razor wire around the capitol we don't need to turn the people's house the center of our republic into an armed camp it's obvious that the democrats are just trying to play political theater with our nation soldiers. now the criticism that is being raised as they argue that these troops are there to give a theatrical political value to play up the idea that the republicans in danger that trump supporters are a threat that this is simply performative on the part of the democrats one fact that has certainly been shocking is that 200 of these national guard troops have

become infected with one team during the time they've been deployed in the u.s. capitol and some of their relatives are alleging that they haven't been given proper treatment and proper medical attention in response to getting infected with covert 19 so certainly an interesting situation with the national guard in the u.s. military remaining at this point remaining in the u.s. capitol until at least mid march you're on the streets of d.c. you will see the military quite a situation in the united states. thank you for those details i thought the scale of more pain in new york that. the hate speech acts has fallen on another social media presence this time a facebook taken down a group called patriots against joe biden it was allied to the conservative news site the scoop whose founders that have also had personal profiles permanently banned here's how facebook explained it's to fission. patriots against joe biden

has been removed from violating our terms of use page is that a hateful threatening or obscene or not allowed we also take down pages there's an individual group or the sits on authorized individual the big tech purge ramped up a gear earlier this month when donald trump and some of his closest allies found themselves silenced by twitter facebook and other platforms many conservatives flocked instead to twitter rival parlor but that too fell foul of the internet's gatekeepers the app was dropped by apple and google and then amazon pulled the plug on hosting the website facebook the bands the page of a group for disillusioned democratic voters or relative new kid on the block telegram is that now under fire to an internet safety campaign group's making legal moves to get apple and google to drop their messenger arab saying it's failing to filter out the extremist activity telegrams currently seeing

a massive influx of users making it tough to root out those banned elsewhere. but let's go live now to one of the co-founders of the scoop this c.e.o. who goes by the name steve strange thanks for joining us on the program it's good to see you now face book you for having me locked you for flouting is community standards. there must have been something in your content which triggered that they wouldn't do it for no reason what they so speaking honestly what was it. speaking honestly my co-founder cameron and i had created several groups we actually created a group called joe biden is not my president about a month ago that group reached 2000000 members within 2 weeks and we had a very strict policy of no hate no violent content the group was pretty much just from supporters posting selfies and people posting funny memes well they deleted that group with no reason so we made the patriots against joe biden group and

within a few days and we made the patriots against joe biden group after the capitol riots several days after and we had a strict clause in the about section of the group this group is about peace we reject all violence anyone is welcome for a civil debate they still say it was extreme they shut down the group and they banned me from facebook permanently as well as the members of my team on the school . your website the skate past a lot of coverage on the group that facebook's also drops patrons against joe biden listing problems with content that is hateful thoughts name go up thing again what was being said that which led to the fun. again we didn't see anything that was threatening or obscene we had a very strict policy you know most conservative news organizations they kind of push the line of what you can post and they don't take facebook's guidelines very seriously i do this group we're small organization we're doing well but we're not big funded media and we need to depend on these social media companies to make

money so cameron and i try our best to follow all of facebook's rules we've barely ever gotten any strikes on our pages and this was pretty much our 1st warning and we were taken down i can't tell you anything of violated the rules i just there was nothing in my opinion there was nothing that we did that was wrong i think it's just because the social media companies want to defend joe biden they're so terrified about what happened happened in the capital and they're using that as cover to just purge all conservatives on social media so if you're claiming that facebook has closed down your sites for no other reason other than political bias that's my opinion yes. facebook and other social networks have increasingly been trying to clamp down on pages containing hasty to a calling for violence including the proud boys and the anti-government movement classed as terrorist is that not a is there a clear distinction between energised free political speech and the aggressive dangerous tribalism which any civilized society would expect it to be neutered

online. you know the problem is very difficult i understand that before social media when we would have discourse it would be in person and the threat of physical altercation would always keep things at bay for the most part you wouldn't go to someone and say you're a big stupid moron right to their face because you're afraid a they might get violent with me with the shelter of the internet it obviously allows for people to have cover and be a lot more extreme in what they say and it is causing problems i understand that i don't know what the solution is but banning people from social media because you think they're too extreme is not the answer as you said earlier people are moving to platforms like telegram to parlor if you ban people for their speech and they don't think they didn't think you were wrong they're going to keep on moving to other platforms so again i understand that there is some charged up rhetoric and i am not a fan of it here at the scoop we try to be very fair and balanced we're not extremists but the answer isn't to ban anyone i don't know what the answer is but this is not

working because people like me who try to do the right thing we get taken down too and that's not fair on may i ask you a facebook page we so odds. for a shop selling some sinister looking naive and i don't mean the kind of kitchen wessels what is that it's got to do with simply find political voices freely i mean it hardly suggests being allied to elevate the discussion does it. well in the united states we have the 2nd amendment the right to bear guns and knives are included in that as an advertiser that selling knives that are perfectly legal in the united states as far as i'm aware nothing in the ad was talking about going out to harm people like the evil person with the knives if someone wants to carry a knife for protection as we've seen there's a lot of civil unrest in the united states the police are protecting the people in many cases because democrat governors and mayors tell them they can't do their job if someone feels like they need to carry a knife or a firearm for protection in this camp in this country and they have the legal right

to do so i see nothing wrong with that i do not promote violence i do not tell anyone to go hurt somebody i do promote self-defense i am a law abiding gun owner myself i carry what i have the legal right to do so for my own protection not to harm anybody else and knives are the same in my opinion with these guns in place what kind of impact as it has on your communities like to say. it's been very difficult actually this group is in the midst of launching a new project called the scoop t.v. that is coming out very soon it's going to be apps on different platforms like roku and mobile apps because we realized months ago we started building this project that we can't depend on these social media companies anymore it's too much risk for our business and so many other conservatives out there to be at the will of these companies who frankly hate our existence in my opinion so we're looking to build other ways that are not dependent on these social media companies who can shut us down that we can go directly to our audience i mean you guys saw what happened alex jones years ago they kicked him off all of social media he's still around he had to

figure out how to survive and keep his business going without social media and we're looking to do the same thing because it's just not a profitable business model anymore to be dependent on these social media companies . steve straying c.e.o. and co-founder of diskeeper news website thank you for your time thank you. and thank you for joining us here on r.t. and to national don't forget we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and leave your comments there and join us again for the latest at the top of the hour. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only . exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful and very critical time to sit down and talk.

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